Measuring effects of linear obstacles on wildlife movements: Accounting for the relationship between step length and crossing probability

European Journal of Wildlife Research

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 271-278

  Eftestøl, Sindre ^a   Tsegaye, Diress ^a,b   Herfindal, Ivar ^c   Flydal, Kjetil ^a   Colman, Jonathan E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Bias; Crossing probability; Linear features; Random trajectories; Step length

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 84896049291     PISSN: 16124642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10344-013-0779-7     Document Type: Article

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